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Friday, November 13, 2015

Police Use Taser On Man 20 Times Killing Him In Act Of Excessive Force (Video)

Cocaine user, Linwood Lambert, was arrested and handcuffed by
police in South Boston, Virginia. Officers initially took him to
the hospital for a "mental evaluation" but changed their minds
and decided to arrest him for erratic behavior, despite the fact
he was in cuffs. They engaged in acts that killed him in the
hospital parking lot via excessive tasing. Three police officers
broke the law in tasing a shackled man (Lambert) and a whopping
20 TIMES (50,000 volts per tase), which unquestionably
constitutes excessive force.

As a result of said police brutality via excessive tasing,
combined with the effects of the cocaine, Lambert died. The
human heart was not meant to withstand such abuse. The cocaine
had given his heart a walloping and the tasing did additional
damage, sending Lambert into full on cardiac arrest. He died of
a heart attack. Ironically, the three officers were inexplicably
given a promotion.

Linwood Lambert

Lambert's family has filed a lawsuit against the police for
$25,000,000 and issued this statement through their attorney,
"Linwood Lambert, Jr.’s death was tragic and never should have
happened. The police officers first encountered an unarmed and
non-threatening man. They placed him in handcuffs and
transported him to the hospital for medical attention. At the
hospital, they repeatedly administered millions of volts of
electrical shocks with a taser on an unarmed and restrained man.
Despite the obvious deterioration of his medical condition from
the tasing, the officers allowed Mr. Lambert to languish in the
hospital parking lot, feet from the emergency department
entrance. We believe the police officers violated Mr. Lambert’s
constitutionally protected rights by depriving him of the
medical attention he desperately needed."

What a sad and tragic tale. The three officers should be
brought up on criminal charges, as their conduct led to
Lambert's death. Had they not tased him 20 times he would be
alive today. Tasers are not for sadistic purposes and must be
used responsibly. The voltage is painful and disrupts the heart.
To have tased him to that degree equals murder. What the
officers did is the equivalent of electrocution.

STORY SOURCE

New video shows Virginia
officers used stun guns on man before

Thursday 12 November 2015 22.39 GMT - Three police officers
repeatedly used stuns guns on a black man they brought to a
Virginia hospital for a mental health evaluation, and the man
later died in their custody, according to recently released
videos in the 2013 case. The videos, first obtained by MSNBC,
show the South Boston officers shocking Linwood R Lambert Jr
multiple times after he kicked out police cruiser’s back window
and ran to the doors of an emergency room while he was
handcuffed.

Instead of taking him inside the ER, which was just steps
away, officers took Lambert to jail, saying he was arrested for
disorderly conduct and property damage. Upon his arrival at the
jail, the 46-year-old was unresponsive. An ambulance brought him
back to the same ER and he was pronounced dead at the hospital,
about an hour after he was initially taken into custody.
Lambert’s family filed a $25m lawsuit in April, accusing the
officers of unlawfully arresting him and using “excessive,
unreasonable and deadly force”.